APPLES. 



Being natives of Barbary, their cultivation in this 

 country, for the purpose of obtaining fruit, cannot be 

 expected to be successful, unless the trees are trained 

 against an east or south-east wall, and subjected to the 

 same management as the peach. This may be done by 

 those who have extent of wall to spare, and as an object 

 of curiosity. 



Almonds obtained in this way may be preserved in 

 dry sand for use ; but they must be thoroughly dried on 

 shelves, or boards, in an airy place, before they are put 

 up, otherwise they will get mouldy. 



Those, however, who require almonds for the dessert, 

 will find it far more to their advantage to purchase the 

 imported fruit. 



CHAP. II. 



APPLES. 

 SECT. I. Summer. Hound, or nearly so. 



1. BOROVITSKY. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 94. ; Pom. 

 Mag. t. 10. 



Fruit middle-sized, roundish, and rather angular. 

 Eye seated in a rather large cavity, and surrounded 

 by a few small plaits. Stalk about an inch long, 

 inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity. Skin pale 

 green on the shaded side, sometimes broken by a silvery 

 appearance of the epidermis ; on the sunny side, striped 

 with crimson red on a ground of paler red ; rather trans- 

 parent. Flesh white, firm, juicy, with a sweet, brisk, 

 sub-acid, very pleasant flavour. 



An early dessert fruit, ripe the middle of August. 

 This beautiful apple was sent from the Taurida Gardens, 



